The Rebel Carrots
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
Jim Davis
I’ve finished harvesting the carrots, and found a few rebels in the bunch:
This one had two roots and they kept spiraling around each other down the entire length of the carrot. Does it remind you of any real life situations? I’m drawing a blank here…
This carrot decided, late in life, to send out roots in every direction! It kind of reminds me of The Car Guy. Once he was retired, he headed down all sorts of paths that he hadn’t had time to explore before!
Everything you ever wanted to know about carrots is at a website called World Carrot Museum. You really should visit this site. It is informative, well laid out, and a lot of fun… at least I think it is, but I’m knee deep in carrots right now.
Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.
Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life, 1978
What about you? What vegetable can you simply not fathom eating?
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My Similar Carrot Story – The 200th Post – Costco makes an excellent carrot cake!
Raw cauliflower. WHY??
Hi Bee – Just curious. I don’t like lima beans.
Carrots can do the oddest things. I once found one that looked like a severed finger, complete with a finger nail. it was both gross and fascinating at the same time. I stuck it in a bowl of mixed nuts at a party and watched peoples’ reactions. I never had more fun with a carrot!
Hi Lorna – It would have been wonderful to watch how people reacted to your carrot!
Interesting contrasts. The first is totally intertwined with itself, while the second is reaching out for the company of others…
Hi Phil – You have made some very deep observations about the motivation of carrots, and I have to agree that they certainly look that way!
A carrot museum! Who knew?
Hi Belle – Yes a Virtual Carrot Museum! It is very well done.
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That is unreal, I love the different shapes.
Hi Mags – If you want to see more oddly shaped vegetables, just Google the words ‘funny shaped vegetables’.
I think carrot 2 looks rather like a lobster!
Hi JB – I agree – it does look a bit lobsterish!
I grow carrots too. No tellin’ what those pesky critters are doing down there underground.
Hi Hansi – Pesky critters in my garden also mean slugs and deer!
Being a veggie there’s not many fruit or veg I would’nt eat…except Melon…I hate it’s watery texture!
Hi Bridget – I’m sure a veggie has the most appreciation for the immense variety of tastes and textures. I know people who love the taste of bananas, but can not tolerate the texture.
These are the wildest carrots I’ve ever seen. Little sculptures all unto themselves. I wouldn’t eat them either..more like put them in some sort of museum!
Hi Marcie – My Carrot Museum will have to be one of photographs. I think The Car Guy has already eaten the carrot oddities and declared they taste just like any other carrot.
lol These are too funny. Mother Nature never ceases to amaze me with her sense of humor to add fun to harvesting.
Hi EC – I only had about 5 funny shape carrots, but they were the oddest looking ones to ever come out of my garden!
Hi Margie,
It’s another Margie popping over from E.C. to say congrats on being a “Lovely Blog” nominee! These carrots are definitely in a league of their own! Best wishes!
Hi US Margie – Welcome to my blog. I will be visiting your blog frequently to see all your wonderful photographs!
Interesting carrots, and great facelift on your blog.
Hi Amanda – Glad you like the facelift. I still have a bit of work to do to fill up the post carousel.
That spiral carrot is crazy! I wonder how it ended up growing like that.
Hi odorunara – I’m not sure what would prompt the spiral carrot to do that, but I think the other carrot maybe bumped up against a rock or something, and that caused the roots to head off in different directions.